Impeaching a Defendant's Testimony by Proof of Post-Arrest Silence: Doyle v. Ohio
O'Keefe, F. Ronald
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Abstract
This Note will attempt to outline the genesis of the issue of impeachment by post-arrest silence by first discussing the various inquiries into the probative value of silence which had been undertaken by courts on the federal level before Hale (United States v. Hale, 422 U.S. 171 (1975 . The focus will then shift to the Hale Court's treatment of this issue. The constitutional aspects of the issue will then be discussed, and the pronouncement of the Doyle Court (Doyle v. Ohio, 96 S. Ct. 2240 (1976 will be analyzed with an emphasis on the continuity between the Hale and Doyle decisions.